Middle East - Being Lebanon
Many bloggers have blogged about why Israel could bomb Lebanon and why India cannot do the same to Pakistan. I'm definitely not an expert in foreign policy but the thought that comes to my mind is that to be immune from such attacks a nation has to be
1. powerful enough to protect itself.
2. useful enough to be protected by another powerful state.
It's as simple as that. Lebanon has both Muslim and Christian population. Therefore whatever it does to identify itself as an Arab nation (Arab Liberation Army for instance), the Arab states do not fully recognize it's Arabianness. Due to it's affliation with Syria it has also come in US crosshairs.
But our beloved Pakistan is different. Now we don't know whether they can protect themselves or not but they are proving useful to the USA and hence any action by India will sure invite retribution from the Global Policeman.
Being Lebanon in Middle East is a great tragedy. Hezbollah is supported and trained by Syria and Iran but those countries are not being bombed. Lebanon is a great example of a nation whose leaders, in their quest to attain power look for support from outside. The outsiders then install puppet govts. and use the country for their own needs.
The current Lebanese Govt. is made up of a large number of Syrian supporters. Independent Lebanese thinkers and politicians have been murdered. Rafiq Hariri is a great example. His assasination was followed by large demonstrations and calls for the Syrian army to quit Lebanon which they did but Hezbollah was already entrenched.
In a way Lebanon is not Pakistan. Lebanon is Afghanistan. Just like how Pakistan used Afghanistan to train Kashmir and Punjab militants, Syria and Iran used Lebanon to train Hezbollah. Now we see the result. Ultimate sufferers are the common people.More so women and children.
BTW, who cares about common people. All it takes is a minutes action and 9 months wait to create one of those suckers aint it :-0).
1. powerful enough to protect itself.
2. useful enough to be protected by another powerful state.
It's as simple as that. Lebanon has both Muslim and Christian population. Therefore whatever it does to identify itself as an Arab nation (Arab Liberation Army for instance), the Arab states do not fully recognize it's Arabianness. Due to it's affliation with Syria it has also come in US crosshairs.
But our beloved Pakistan is different. Now we don't know whether they can protect themselves or not but they are proving useful to the USA and hence any action by India will sure invite retribution from the Global Policeman.
Being Lebanon in Middle East is a great tragedy. Hezbollah is supported and trained by Syria and Iran but those countries are not being bombed. Lebanon is a great example of a nation whose leaders, in their quest to attain power look for support from outside. The outsiders then install puppet govts. and use the country for their own needs.
The current Lebanese Govt. is made up of a large number of Syrian supporters. Independent Lebanese thinkers and politicians have been murdered. Rafiq Hariri is a great example. His assasination was followed by large demonstrations and calls for the Syrian army to quit Lebanon which they did but Hezbollah was already entrenched.
In a way Lebanon is not Pakistan. Lebanon is Afghanistan. Just like how Pakistan used Afghanistan to train Kashmir and Punjab militants, Syria and Iran used Lebanon to train Hezbollah. Now we see the result. Ultimate sufferers are the common people.More so women and children.
BTW, who cares about common people. All it takes is a minutes action and 9 months wait to create one of those suckers aint it :-0).
posted by Karthik S at
3:00 PM
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